st Fret Intro: They raised him up on the instalment plan The homely son of a handsome man Neither clear-complected nor expected to achieve A little bit ragged, a little bit rough A little too rowdy for the summer of love Still he's looking for a reason to believe And he's changed his name from Frank to Valentino And he's growing out his sideburns And he's wearing platform shoes And he's driving on the midnight road from Medford down to Reno And he thinks he's found a way to cure his working blues He got himself married at seventeen She looked real pretty but she talked kinda mean He thought they'd work things out in the fullness of time Well, twenty years later he's headed south The close-range victim of her sawed-off mouth Leaving their salad days behind And he's changed his name from Frank to Valentino And he's growing out his sideburns And he's wearing platform shoes And he's driving on the midnight road from Medford down to Reno And he thinks he's found a way to cure his working blues Instrumental: